Gary Oldman says he jumped at likelihood to be in Cannes drama ‘Parthenope’

CANNES, France, –

Gary Oldman jumped on the likelihood to be in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s new coming-of-age drama, “Parthenope,” even when it was only a small function, the Oscar-winning actor instructed Reuters.

“I used to be in anyway. I did not care what it might have been both,” mentioned Oldman on Wednesday on the

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, the place the competitors movie celebrated its premiere.

Oldman has a bit half as melancholic American novelist John Cheever. The title character, a long-haired magnificence performed by newcomer Celeste Dalla Porta, is inexplicably drawn to him on trip.

Parthenope enchants the boys in her life, and the movie follows her from her delivery within the waters of the Bay of Naples to her final day earlier than retiring as a professor of anthropology.

Sorrentino mentioned his personal life expertise gave him the concept of following a personality by varied ages.

“Being in my 50s, properly, really extra, I used to be very fascinated with the concept of recounting the melancholies, sorrows, and hopes that revolve across the passing of time,” he mentioned.

“And so from there I got here up with the concept of doing an extended story of a lady from when she was born till right now,” he added.

Sorrentino famous that the heroine’s improvement additionally coincides with that of the town of Naples.

“Parthenope, within the first a part of the movie, when she is younger, coincides with the town, they’re two mysteries,” mentioned Sorrentino, a Cannes veteran who has introduced seven movies to compete for the pageant’s prime prize, the Palme d’Or.

Within the second half, she grows right into a free and spontaneous lady who doesn’t decide, which can also be like the town, he added at a information convention within the French Riviera resort city.

Naples is usually often known as Parthenope in reference to the traditional Greek settlement established there, named after a siren who in keeping with legend drowned herself after failing to bewitch Odysseus and whose physique washed up on the shores of the town.

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Sorrentino received greatest overseas language movie with 2013’s “The Nice Magnificence” and was nominated for an Oscar for 2021’s “The Hand of God,” a private household tragedy set in 1980s Naples. That movie first put Dalla Porta, 26, on the director’s radar.

“The casting brokers who selected me as an additional known as me to do Paolo Sorrentino’s Bulgari industrial,” she instructed Reuters. After a 12 months or two, she mentioned, she began auditioning a number of occasions for the starring function of Parthenope.

For Dalla Porta, the movie not solely is an allegory for Naples, but additionally for her personal life.

“Earlier than we began capturing the movie I used to be nonetheless in a youthful, carefree section of my life, the place work was nonetheless one thing of a dream and being an actor considerably an summary concept,” she mentioned at a information convention alongside Sorrentino.

“However throughout the course of of constructing the movie, it was as if I needed to let go of the little lady in me,” she added.

The movie’s reception was tepid at greatest, with The Guardian newspaper calling it a “facile” movie and saying it comes near self-parody. Commerce publication IndieWire known as it “a superficial meditation on the connection between youth and sweetness.”

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